Brilliant. I find it hugely discouraging to listen to old cliches that criticize people - when our whole society has so little agreement over diverse teaching methods, and over and over provide "standards" for "normal" education, meaning teacher talks, quiet students listen and study at home. I love African American culture for its rich understanding that reaching every student takes many strategies, and just leaving behind, failing or expelling students for what is called "disruptive" behavior, is dysfunctional.
With the memory devices I think of an episode of the classic TV show, Touched by an Angel, where Tess teaches new Asian immigrants the names of the American presidents so they can pass their immigration test: She says it's easy and starts to name them in order, to the tune of "Oh beautiful, O gracious skies....." And the whole class learns. Teaching is like social media - teachers must watch their students and if someone is falling behind, spend a little time with them, to see where the problem occurs. Our academically based culture turns every strategy or intervention thing into cold, impartial science presented in a replicable formula. We call "natural learning" backward or uneducated. But it is the educators who have lost ways to talk normally about people, find strategies and have fun doing it.
Other comment about jobs - it's a management problem. Teaching goals and plans then disappearing and leaving those who implement those goals on their own, instead of supporting new learners - which is what YOU said!! Healthcare same thing, jobs reduced to lists of goals, factory mindset.
Brilliant. I find it hugely discouraging to listen to old cliches that criticize people - when our whole society has so little agreement over diverse teaching methods, and over and over provide "standards" for "normal" education, meaning teacher talks, quiet students listen and study at home. I love African American culture for its rich understanding that reaching every student takes many strategies, and just leaving behind, failing or expelling students for what is called "disruptive" behavior, is dysfunctional.
With the memory devices I think of an episode of the classic TV show, Touched by an Angel, where Tess teaches new Asian immigrants the names of the American presidents so they can pass their immigration test: She says it's easy and starts to name them in order, to the tune of "Oh beautiful, O gracious skies....." And the whole class learns. Teaching is like social media - teachers must watch their students and if someone is falling behind, spend a little time with them, to see where the problem occurs. Our academically based culture turns every strategy or intervention thing into cold, impartial science presented in a replicable formula. We call "natural learning" backward or uneducated. But it is the educators who have lost ways to talk normally about people, find strategies and have fun doing it.
Other comment about jobs - it's a management problem. Teaching goals and plans then disappearing and leaving those who implement those goals on their own, instead of supporting new learners - which is what YOU said!! Healthcare same thing, jobs reduced to lists of goals, factory mindset.